Miyamoto

Tis was my first post over at Art Jumble... theme was Video Games.
Soooo I did Miyamoto - Head of Nintendo, created Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Zelda, etc - I'm really diggin the Jumble... lots of cool cats pumpin out amazing work, & it gives me some much needed motivation to create something new every week

From the Back

Got an assignment to draw some muscular guys and pin-up girls with their backs facing the viewer...(girls post to soon follow this) I was, as is no surprise, more excited to do the girls than I was the muscle men. But I was pleasently surprised with how the fellas turned out. When doing the girls I wanted to give each of them their own "theme" or environment. As opposed to just random people standing with their backs to the viewer. So here are the 3 guys first... a "dad" type grillin outside, a surfer, and a cop.

Camels

Well I recieved a folder not too long ago requesting a camel/desert themed game. And wouldnt ya know it... they called it... Cameloot. BRILLIANT!!! Sense an overall theme here? Dino DOLLARS Camel LOOT. Anywhoo the camel symbols you see here have negative space in the sky - thats where the dollar amount goes. So now you can run and tell all your friends about what you learned about charitable gaming today. Negative space in symbol = Allows placement for $ amount. Unfortunatley as usually seems to be the case here, I was pressed for time when it came around for the backgrounds... they could use some more shadows etc to really "plant" them in the ground so to speak. I also felt it necessary to have one of them smoking a cig... unoriginal, yea but hey whattya gonna do.

Boys of Summer

Well this is a game from a month or so ago. They (customer) wanted baseball players... Did a really cartoony Babe for the header and then they specified The Mick, Roger Maris, P.Rose & Kirby. Most random cast of players? Yeaup. Their reasoning... Mick: was their favorite player -Maris: true home run leader -Kirby: the customer is in Minnesota -P.Rose: Cause hey, its a gambling game. Yeeeaaa whatever, I just try to make pictures.

Surf Party

Well, another example of someone tossing me a folder with a name on it. Obviously in this case the folder was branded with "Surf Party" Above is what I came up with. Keep in mind that there is a heirarchy to these things. Each one of them is tagged with what we like to call in the gaming industry a tier (dollar amount) Hence the reason for the cool guy surfing followed by the guy just chillin on the beach with his board, and lastly a shark. I like em but Im still working on my black outlines. Seeing how they get sized down tremendously... black is usually the way to go to make them... and I cant believe I am even using this word *sigh* ... "pop".